foetz wrote:as far as interpreting that roadmap image goes, that doesn't tell much so pretty much the whole article is guesswork.

By not telling much, the roadmap image says a lot. It says, "We're going to do just enough to fulfill our long term contracts with governments, and we'll give other organizations with deep pockets just enough to keep them buying support contracts while they migrate to other solutions, but Solaris and SPARC are finished. We're just not ready to publish an official EOL date yet, since we might be able to extract some more cash in contract negotiations as long as we pretend that we are undecided about it."

foetz wrote:as far as interpreting that roadmap image goes, that doesn't tell much so pretty much the whole article is guesswork.

By not telling much, the roadmap image says a lot. It says, "We're going to do just enough to fulfill our long term contracts with governments, and we'll give other organizations with deep pockets just enough to keep them buying support contracts while they migrate to other solutions, but Solaris and SPARC are finished. We're just not ready to publish an official EOL date yet, since we might be able to extract some more cash in contract negotiations as long as we pretend that we are undecided about it."

yeah that's one possibility. unfortunately a likely one but not the only one anyway

Raion-Fox wrote:AIX on POWER is very healthy. Although your poor Stockholm is stuck on 7.1 or less. There's also IBM i on POWER as well and POWERVM.

I have a POWER6 machine here and it saddened me a little to know I was stuck on 7.1. But I don't have a connection for newer versions right now anyway so I'll just pretend. Not that it's that big of deal, AIX is like Solaris, companies deploy machines and leave them with the version it came out of the box running until it dies. Even putting old versions on newer machines just to keep things the same.

Pretty sad to see Solaris coming to an end, but the days of dropping a Sun box in to run NFS, NIS, DNS, and DHCP are gone. I think Oracle could have stretched it out longer if they pushed turnkey systems a little harder but then they'd ignore the small box that lets sys admins experiment and do dev work. With Microsoft pricing SQL Server Enterprise the way they do Oracle could try and recapture some of the landscape - especially if they had BI features. And it could be running on Solaris on Intel or SPARC if they wanted.

Good news for IBM and, to a lesser extent, HPE. They'll be more than happy to swoop in to fill the void and IBM can point to its long POWER support for shops nervous about going non-prop. The x86 shops probably don't make Snoracle enough bread, either.

If Larry's intent was to ship the whole stack, he certainly farked that up.